Sunday 16 August 2026

176 result(s) for “Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine”

Investment

PND 2026-2030: the Ivorian private sector, a partner of choice

The Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, presented on June 22, 2026 the National Development Plan (PND) 2026-2030 to member companies of the General Confederation of Enterprises of Côte d'Ivoire (CGECI). With a total budget of more than 114,838 billion CFA francs, this ambitious plan makes...

par Franck Oulaï
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Maritime

Port of San Pedro - Europe: sustainable cocoa and infrastructure at the heart of a strategic partnership

The Autonomous Port of San Pedro welcomed an imposing delegation from the European Union, led by its Ambassador to Ivory Coast Irchad Ramiandrasoa Razaaly, accompanied by the ambassadors of the Netherlands, Spain as well as representatives of the embassies of Belgium and Germany. This high-level visit highlighted two c...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Pêche

Sustainable fishing: motor marking becomes part of the law

Over three days, Abidjan opened a tripartite workshop bringing together the Ministry of Animal and Fisheries Resources (MIRAH), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The objective was to validate a draft order on the marking of fishing gear....

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Plasturgie

Plastics: Plastica CI wants to train the industrialists of tomorrow

During the visit of an official delegation from the French region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to its Koumassi facilities, Plastica Côte d'Ivoire recently announced its project to create the first plastics and packaging school in Côte d'Ivoire. An educational and industrial project designed to prepare Ivorian youth for the job...

par Franck Oulaï
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Investment

Northern Tafiré – Ferkessédougou highway: the IDB injects 130 billion CFA francs

The Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, and the President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, Dr Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser, signed a financing agreement of around 130 billion CFA francs, for the construction of the Tafiré-Ferkessédougou section, 60 kilometers long, on June 19, 2...

par Franck Oulaï
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Agriculture

INPHB - Harvard: Ivorian-Ghanaian cocoa at the heart of a scientific alliance

A delegation from Harvard University paid an official visit to the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) in Yamoussoukro on Thursday, June 18, 2026. This meeting opens the way to a large-scale academic and scientific collaboration around a research project on the effects of climate change on c...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Transport

Yopougon-Bingerville BRT: significant progress noted by the World Bank and AFD

A joint delegation from the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD), accompanied by the Director General of the Urban Mobility Authority in Greater Abidjan (AMUGA), Romain Kouakou, and the main project stakeholders, recently made a field visit to the Yopougon-Bingerville Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) construction...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Investment

Ivory Coast - Kuwaiti Fund: agreement sealed for the Daloa vocational high school

On the sidelines of the 51st Annual Meetings of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Dr. Souleymane Diarrassouba, Minister of Planning and Development, signed on behalf of the government a supplementary financing agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KDEA). This ag...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Maritime

Economic cooperation: Bordeaux turns its gaze towards the Port of Abidjan

Representing 85% of Ivory Coast's trade, the Autonomous Port of Abidjan continues to attract the attention of international business circles. It is in this context that a delegation from the Builders' Club of the Bordeaux region was received by the director general of the autonomous port of Abidjan, as part of an econo...

par Chalysa Brou
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Maritime

Abidjan: the Autonomous Port and shipowners are banking on the fluidity of trade

In a context of intensification of maritime traffic, the Autonomous Port of Abidjan and the Union of Consignees and Shipowners of Côte d'Ivoire (UCACI) discussed the levers for improving the performance and fluidity of port services.

par Chalysa Brou
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Innovation

Digital: Starlink officially arrives in Ivory Coast from July 2026

Ivory Coast is entering the era of satellite internet. The Ivorian government has formalized the authorization granted to Starlink Network CIV, a subsidiary of Elon Musk's SpaceX, to deploy its high-speed internet services throughout the national territory from July 2026. A digital revolution which could transform the...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Investment

International cooperation: Côte d’Ivoire establishes itself as a key partner for INTERREG MAC

During a meeting held in early June 2026 in Abidjan, the Ivorian authorities and those responsible for the INTERREG Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands (MAC) Program confirmed the country's involvement in ten major projects, representing a total investment of more than 25 million euros, or nearly 16 billion CFA francs. A rec...

par Franck Oulaï
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